Adobe Indesign ACA Certification Study Guide

Flow

A category related to the energy conveyed by lines and shapes.

Color stop

A color that is a starting color for a gradient blend.

Direction

A common way to describe lines, such as vertical, horizontal, diagonal.

Index markers

Hidden characters that provide a page reference for the topics listed in the index.

Variety

High contrast. The opposite of unity.

Select the image inside the Frame on Page 7 and change the Opacity of the image to 60%.

Highlight image>Set opacity

Format to open files in older versions of InDesign

InDesign Markup (IDML)

IDML

InDesign Markup Language, a file format that provides backward compatibility with earlier versions of InDesign.

Which 3 techniques are commonly used to create a visual hierarchy?

Indentation, Line Spacing, and Font Choice

Column Guides

Indicate where columns fall

Margin Guides

Indicate where margins begin

Metadata

Information that is included in a document but is hidden, such as copyright, lens information, location via GPS, camera settings, and more.

Hyperlinks

Interactive links that take you from a source point you click (or tap) to a destination somewhere else.

Pica

Is a print term--one pica equals 12 points, in the sense of a 12 point font

Document Grid

Is useful for aligning objects--not just text--across your documents

Setting the Layout option when exporting an interactive PDF will cause what to occur?

It will determine the initial layout of the PDF when opened.

Specifications

Detailed written goals and limits for a project. These are sometimes one of the deliverables of a project.

Hyphenation

Determines if and when words should be split with hyphens when wrapping to the next line.

Ligatures

Special characters used to represent letter combinations, such as "fi."

Swashes

Special characters with flowing and elegant endings for the ascenders and descenders.

Typeface

Specific letterform set, such as Helvetica, Arial, Garamond, and so on. It is the "look" of the characters.

Geometric (lines)

Tend to be straight and have sharp angles. Look manmade and intentional. Communicate strength, power, and precision.

Which three frame type are found in InDesign?

Text Frames, Graphic Frames and Color Frames

Character formatting

Text formatting for selected text, for example, font choice, font style (bold, italic), and size.

Overset text

Text that does not fit inside a text frame.

Snapping

Turned on, objects automatically click into place as you move them close to a guide

Which InDesign tool is the only one that can be used to create an empty text frame?

Type

Points

Unit of measurement used for type size.

Project creep

Unplanned changes that increase the amount of work (scope) that a project requires. When the project loses focus and spins out of control, it eats up more and more time and effort.

Small caps

Uses only uppercase letterforms for each letter, with lowercase letters appearing in a smaller size.

Pictograph (pictogram)

Graphic symbol that represents something in the real world. Computer icons are pictographs that suggest the function they represent, such as a trash can icon to delete a file.

Which three terms usually refer to print publications?

Halftone, Crop marks, Spot Color

There is a video placed on page 3 of the document. Export only page 3 as an interactive PDF file.

File>Export>Change to Interactive PDF>Set settings

A clear layout includes properly wrapping text around illustrations in the text. What will help you change the spacing between selections of text and wrap objects in the articles?

Fit content to frame

Monospaced font

Fixed-width or nonproportional fonts that use the same amount of horizontal space for each letter.

Sans serif fonts

Font without serifs (the small lines extending from the strokes of a character). Often used for headlines and titles for their strong, stable, modern feel.

Serif fonts

Fonts that feature small lines extending from the strokes of the characters. Serif fonts are associated with typewriters, and they convey tradition, intelligence, and class.

CHANGE PAGE SIZE

GO TO PAGE PANEL BREH

Masthead

Headline or title for a magazine.

Footnotes

Which element is NOT tagged in XML when you export a layout to XML after auto tagging?

The height and width of the text frame.

Which information is displayed in the Info panel when you select a text frame?

Placed InDesign files

Which is checked as part of the preflight process?

Only tagged content.

Which is included when you export an InDesign file as XML?

Bullets and numbered lists

Which item is exported when you export an InDesign document as XHTML?

Linked images on the Pasteboard.

Which linked files are NOT copied to the package folder when you package an InDesign document?

Creating an unnamed color.

Which task can be performed by using only the Color panel and NOT the Swatches panel?

RGB, Lab, CMYK

Which three color models can you use to define colors in InDesign? (Choose three)

Rasterized vector text.

Which transparency issues can you identify by using the Flattener Preview panel?

EPUB

Which type of file is generated after you export an InDesign document to Digital Editions?

Number of pages.

You have created an InDesign document and want to modify some of the parameters for the document. Which parameters can you modify by using the Document Setup dialog box?

Save the image as Photoshop PDF with embedded fonts.

You have placed a PSD file containing editable text into an InDesign document. You want the font used in the PSD file to remain as vector and to be saved during the Package process. What should you do?

Only Object 2 and Object 3 are modified.

You have three objects in your document named Object 1, Object 2, and Object 3. You select Object 1 in your layout and apply a drop shadow to it. With the object selected, you create a new object style and name it Drop Shadow. You then apply the Drop Shadow style to Object 2 and Object 3. You edit the Drop Shadow style. Which objects will be modified to reflect the changes to the style?

page edge

third furthest one out

Tracking

Refers to the space between characters across a line text

Repetition

Repeating an element in a design.

Sketches

Representative drawings of how to lay out a document or web page. These are sometimes one of the deliverables of a project.

You find that you don't need the Character Styles panel very often, so remove it from your desktop view.

Right click on CP and close

Wireframe

Rough, representative sketch of how to lay out a document.

Which term refers to changes in size or complexity of deliverables that must be controlled in order to keep projects on schedule and under budget?

Scope creep

leading

change space between two lines of texts

define: the inside margins or blank space between two facing pages is the gutter

word: Gutter

define: when any image or element on a page touches the edge of the page, extending beyond the trim edge, leaving no margin it is said to ___________.

word: bleed

define: altering the width and height of an image by removing parts of the image's edges.

word: cropping

define: left and right pages that share a spine in the printed publication

word: facing pages

definition: a loss less bit-mapped file format for high resolution images, typically used in print

word: file format EPS

define: a container for text and other objects in a layout

word: frame

define: the spacing between characters

word: kerning

define: the spacing between lines of text

word: leading

define: pages that contain text, graphics, and guides which can be repeated on every page

word: master page

define: adapting an image when the resolution..?

word: resampling

define: changing the size of an image's container without changing the dimensions of the image

word: resizing a frame

define: usually non-printing Information (such as title and date) used to identify a document

word: slug

define: two adjacent pages treated as a single layout

word: spread

define: the final size of a printed page after excess edges have been cut off is the trim size

word: trim

margins

4th inside

Which two pieces of information should you identify first to help prepare an article about a new restaurant that will appear in the magazine?

1) Target Audience 2) Purpose of the article

While reviewing the current magazine template, you notice that it has a consistent look. Which two are consistent?

1) The body text is from one type family 2) the headings are from one type family

Which two factors should influence design choices when working on this new geography textbook?

1)Design of current textbook 2) Textbook audience

Type size

A font's height from the highest ascender to the lowest descender.

Run-in head

A heading that is part of the paragraph text itself, rather than a paragraph on its own.

Index

A list of topics, also referred to as index entries, that includes page number references.

Line

A mark with a beginning and end point.

Page reference

A page number for topics listed in an index that points the reader to a location in a publication where the topic is covered.

Anchor point

A point on a path that connects to a line segment.

FOCAL POINT

A point that pulls the selected path segments.

Deliverables

A predetermined list of items that will be delivered to the customer.

Which tool in InDesign allows you to change corner points into smooth points and vice versa?

Convert Direction Point Tool

CREATIVE COMMONS

A range of copyright licenses that offer an easy way to give the public permission to use copyrighted works.

Pattern

A repetitive sequence of different colors, shapes, or values.

Fair use

A set of rules that specify how and when copyrighted material can be used and that make sure copyright protection doesn't come at the cost of creativity and freedom.

Runt

A single word that appears on the last line of a paragraph and is considered typographically undesirable.

Feedback loop

A system set up to continually encourage and require input and approval from a client on a project's direction.

Rule of thirds

A technique for laying out the space of your page to provide a focal point. Two vertical and two horizontal lines evenly divide the space into nine equal boxes, as in a tic-tac-toe board.

The text in the inline frame is editable in its own story editor.

A text frame contains some text. You insert another text frame as an inline object into this text frame. You type some text into the inline text frame. You select the parent text frame and open the story editor. The story editor displays an anchored object placeholder instead of the text contained in the inline text frame. Why does this occur?

Licensing

A way to legally use copyrighted material for a certain time and in a certain way, usually associated with paying a fee established by the copyright holder.

Asymmetrical

Achieves balance with different elements with different weights on each side (or the top and bottom) of a page.

Optical Kerning

Adjusts the space between letters based on their shapes

Paragraph settings

Affect an entire paragraph rather than selected words. These settings include alignment, hyphenation, and so on.

Justified

Aligns text to a straight edge on both the right and left edges of a paragraph.

Handwritten fonts

Also known as hand fonts, they simulate handwriting.

Unity (harmony)

Also known as harmony and sharing similar traits. Low contrast. Things that go together should look like they belong together. The opposite of variety.

Blackletter fonts

Also known as old English, gothic, or textura. Fonts that feature an overly ornate style, and convey a feeling of rich and sophisticated gravitas.

Decorative fonts

Also known as ornamental, novelty, or display, these fonts don't fall into any of the other categories.

Dingbat fonts

Also known as wingdings, they consist of a collection of objects and shapes instead of letters, numerals, and punctuation.

Shape

An area enclosed or defined by an outline, such as circles, squares, triangles, and even clouds.

Pasteboard

An area surrounding the document pages used to store design elements that don't appear on a page.

Style (line)

An effect applied to a line, such as varying width.

Baseline

An imaginary line used to organize text along a horizontal plane.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Anything an individual has written or created.

Hand-drawn lines

Appear to be created through traditional media, such as paints, charcoal, or chalk.

Frames

Are identical to paths, with only one difference--they can be containers for text or other objects

Ruler Guides

Are similar to the guides in the Photoshop CS6 and other adobe tools

Guides

Are thin lines that aid with object placement

Reflected highlight

Area of a form that is lit by reflections from the ground or other objects in a scene.

Align Objects

Arrange objects along a vertical and horizontal line

Auto-size

Automatic growth in depth or width of a text frame dependent on the amount of text it contains.

Negative space

Blank areas in a design, also known as white space.

Gradient

Blends between different colors or shades of color.

Footer rows

Bottom row or rows of a table.

Text frame

Box-like element that contains text.

print color format

CMYK

DESIGN DELIVERABLES

COMPOSITES AND SKETCHES

GROUP SHAPES

CTRL + G

Which InDesign panel has a use of: Change or apply formatting settings to a range of selected text.

Character panel

Which InDesign panel has a use of: Create, name, and apply defined sets of formatting options to a range of selected text

Character style

What is a benefit of using the Live Preflight feature?

Checks for and displays errors while you work.

Radial

Circular type of balance that radiates from the center instead of the middle of a design.

In interactive documents, some multimedia assets such as animations-require a trigger to start them. Which two actions can be assigned as triggers to media assets?

Click On page load

Change the color setting of the document to North American Preset 2

Click on Edit > Color Settings Click on the Drop Down menu under settings and change

Add a 0p9 Bleed to each page side in the document and then hide the guides.

Click on File>Document Setup >Click the triangle beside "bleeds and slugs">Set bleed>Click OK Right click on the guides and select "hide guides"

In interactive documents, some multimedia assets such as animations, require a trigger to start them. Which two events can be assigned a triggers for multimedia assets?

Click, Rollover, Embed, HTML Snippet

Process color

Color made up of multiple color components; generally refers to mixing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black for offset printing.

Color harmonies

Color rules that are named for their relative locations on the color wheel.

Complementary colors

Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.

Corporate colors

Colors that are part of a company's branding.

Analogous colors

Colors that are side by side on the color wheel.

Which tool in InDesign lets you select an object and add it to the Content Conveyor?

Content Collector Tool

Which two InDesign tools allow you to duplicate objects on a page and place them in an InDesign document?

Content Collector tool Content Placer tool

Alignment

Controls how the text is positioned horizontally within the text frame, for example, left, centered, or right.

Additive color

Created by combining light.

Tertiary color

Created by mixing primary and secondary colors.

Subtractive color

Created by subtracting light. Printing uses subtractive color while digital devices use additive color.

Secondary colors

Created when you combine primary colors.

Contrast

Creates visual interest and a focal point in a composition. It is what draws the eye to the focal point.

Attribution

Creative Commons licensing indicated with "BY." Requires that you credit the original author when using work, and you are allowed to tweak the work as long as proper credit is given to the author.

ShareAlike

Creative Commons licensing. Allows you to use an item in any way you want as long as your creation is shared under the same license as the original work.

NonCommercial (NC)

Creative Commons licensing. Means you can use work in your own creative work as long as you don't charge for it.

NoDerivs (ND)

Creative Commons licensing. Requires that you not change material when you incorporate it into your own work. It can be used freely, but you must pass it along without change.

Public Domain

Creative Commons licensing. When copyright is expired or released and no longer applies to the content, or when an artist releases his or her work. It can be used without worrying about infringement.

Rhythm

Creative and expressive, rather than a consistent pattern or repetition in a design.

Margins

Define the image area on the page. Headers and footers are positioned in the top and bottom margin area between the page edge and the margins.

Emphasis

Describes the focal point to which the eye is naturally and initially drawn in a design.

Horizontal scale

Describes the function of stretching letters and distorting the typeface geometry.

Vertical scale

Describes the function of stretching letters and distorting the typeface geometry.

Value

Describes the lightness or darkness of an object. Together with color, value represents the visible spectrum, such as a gradient.

Proportion (scale)

Describes the relative size and scale of elements.

Form

Describes three-dimensional objects, such as spheres, cubes, and pyramids.

Master items

Design elements placed on a master page.

Project deadlines

Dictates when work needs to be completed.

Monochromatic

Different shades and tints of the same color. Communicates a relaxed and peaceful feeling.

Dock the character styles panel to create a new tab group with both panels. Create a new workspace named styles.

Dock the panels>Click on Essentials (in workspace) and select New

Glyph

Each character of a font, whether it is a letter, number, symbol, or swash.

Emphasis in this textbook will help highlight the most important parts of the text. Which two statements best describes appropriate uses of emphasis in your textbook?

Emphasis helps readers identify the relative importance of each element. A clear focal point will be the most emphasized element.

Design principles

Essential rules or assembly instructions of art.

Balance

Evenly distributed, but not necessarily centered or mirrored.

Workspace

Everything you see onscreen in InDesign, such as the application with its Tools panel, Control panel, and document window containing pages and pasteboard.

Package the textbook document. In the instructions field, type review, then call the package's folder name textbook.

Export > Package>Type in Info

Variable width lines

Expresses flow and grace.

Curved (lines)

Expresses fluidity, beauty, and grace.

Style override

Extra formatting applied in addition to a style's formatting. For example, an object may have a stroke applied in addition to the formatting specified in its object style.

NEW DOCUMENT PRESET

FILE --> DOC PRESET --> DEFINE --> NEW

Enabling which option will place pages in a left-and-right page spread for printing books?

Facing pages

You need to treat each document in a page as a single page. Which option should you disable to make each page stand alone?

Facing pages, Frame, Bleed, master Page

Text Flow

How text continues from frame to frame

Stock photo

Images for which the author retains copyright but a license for use is available.

Sepia tones

Images in which different shades of gray appear in different shades of a reddish-brown color.

Ideographs (ideograms)

Images that represent an idea, such as a heart representing love.

Metric kerning

Kerns letter pairs based on information specified in the font; kerning adjusts space between characters.

Opacity

Level by which an object is transparent or see-through; 100% opacity is nontransparent.

Direction line

Line attached to an anchor point that controls the curvature of a path

Motion path

Line that an object follows as part of a animation.

Organic lines

Lines that are usually irregular and imperfect. Found in nature.

Implied lines

Lines that don't really exist but are implied by shapes, such as dotted or dashed lines, people waiting in lines, or the margins of a block of text.

Diagonal (lines)

Lines traveling neither on a vertical nor a horizontal path. Express growth or decline and imply movement or change.

File format that allows designers to add digitally rich media into a document such as links, videos, audio and GIFs.

PDF interactive

Chaotic lines

Look like scribbles and feel unpredictable and frantic. Convey a sense of urgency, fear, or explosive energy.

Script fonts (formal)

Mimic handwriting. They convey a feeling of beauty, grace, or feminine dignity.

Optical kerning

More even kerning applied by InDesign that overwrites metric kerning; kerning adjusts the space between characters.

Animation

Movement or transform of a design element on the page.

Horizontal

Moving from left to right, and expresses calmness and balance.

Vertical

Moving from top to bottom. Vertical lines tend to express power and elevation.

Iterations

New versions of a design that successively become closer to the desired result.

COMPOUND SHAPES

OBJECT --> CONVERT SHAPE

MERGE SHAPES TO CREATE A NEW SHAPE

OBJECT --> PATHFINDER --> ADD

Frame

Objects of varying shapes (rectangles, ellipses, etc.) that contain content (such as text or images) or simply reflect a stroke and/or fill color.

Symmetrical

Occurs when you can divide a page along its middle, and the left side of the page is a mirror image of the right (or the top reflects the bottom). Conveys an intentional, formal, and mechanical feeling.

Project scope

Outlines the amount and type of work to be completed.

spot colors

PANTONE - specific colors you can't create with CMYK

Spread

Page layout in which pages face each other.

Master pages

Pages that add common design elements to document pages, such as page numbers, headers, and footers.

Docked panels

Panels that snap to the side of the document window.

Which InDesign panel has a use of: Change and apply formatting settings to whole paragraphs

Paragraph Panel

Which InDesign panel has a use of: Create, name, and apply defined sets of formatting options to whole paragraphs.

Paragraph style

Line segment

Part of a path that joins two anchor points.

Kerning

Refers to the space between any two characters

Geometric shapes

Predictable and consistent shapes, such as circles, squares, triangles, and stars. They are rarely found in nature and convey mechanical and manufactured impressions.

Spot color

Premixed ink created specifically for use in print production.

Gradient ramp

Preview for a gradient that shows the color blend and color stops.

Which color mode use a combination of four standard-color inks (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black, CMYK) to produce a variety of colors by mixing and overlaying them?

Process color

It is important to make sure you have permission to use content before publishing it, because pictures, images, and other content will come from a variety of sources. Which type of content can be legally used in a document without getting permission?

Public domain

Web color format

RGB

Primary color

Red, blue, and green. These can be combined to create every other color in the visible spectrum.

Overset Text

Refers to text that does not fit in the text frame

Fill

Refers to the color inside the outline of a character

Stroke

Refers to the outline itself

Import the text from the text file Chapter1.txt into the text frame on page 4

Select page 4. Select File>Place >Select the Chapter1.txt.

Add placeholder text in the empty text frame on page 5 of the document

Select the text box > Click on "text" > Select insert placeholder text

Which tool in InDesign allows you to select points on a patch, or contents within a frame?

Selection tool, Free transform, direct selection, Convert direction point

As the audience for the newsletter will be the company's employees, what techniques will provide the moth effective and unbiased feedback?

Send out a survey containing drafts to a random sample of employees.

Indent

Settings that determine how far an entire paragraph or its first line is indented from the edges of the text-frame's columns.

Path

Shape assembled from anchor points and line segments.

Organic shapes

Shapes that are random or generated by something natural. They are usually asymmetrical and convey natural, homemade, or relaxed feelings.

Representative shapes

Shapes used to represent information. They are helpful in communicating with multicultural and multilingual audiences.

Paragraph spacing

Similar to leading, but applies to an entire paragraph instead of lines of type within them. Also includes the spacing above or below paragraphs.

PROPORTION

Size of elements in relation to one another.

Lowercase

Small letters, the opposite of uppercase.

Slab serif fonts

Squared-off versions of a typical serif font. Also known as Egyptian, block serif, or square serif, they convey a machine-built feel.

Paragraph style

Styles that apply all text formatting to a paragraph.

Object styles

Styles that apply basic formatting attributes (such as fill, stroke, corner options, and text-frame options) to selected objects.

Character styles

Styles used to format words or phrases within a paragraph differently from the rest of the paragraph.

Style groups

Styles, such as paragraph or object styles, organized in folders.

InDesign warns you that gradient swatches will not be saved in the Adobe Swatch Exchange file.

The Swatches panel of your current project contains the default swatches, three custom solid-color swatches and attempt to save them as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file?

Texture

The actual, tactile texture in real objects or the appearance of texture in a two-dimensional image.

Leading (line spacing)

The amount of space between the baselines of two lines of text. In InDesign, leading is set as a character attribute.

Highlight

The area of a form that is directly facing the light and appears lightest.

Object shadow

The area of the form that is facing away from the light source and appears darkest.

slug

The area outside the page and bleed that contains printer instructions or job sign-off information.

NEGATIVE SPACE

The areas of a design that do not include any design elements (empty space).

Design elements

The building blocks of art defined by artists to provide a framework for creating art.

Elements of art

The building blocks of creative works. They are the "nouns" of design, such as space, line, shape, form, texture, value, color, and type.

Space

The canvas or working area. Its dimensions are determined by the resolution of the page you are creating.

Which statement is the best definition for readability for graphic design?

The ease at which text can be read

Which statement is the best definition for readability fr graphic design?

The effort needed for words, phrases, and blocks of text to read is low.

Client's needs

The focus and goals for a design project.

Poster

The image that appears when a media element is first viewed in a digital media publication.

bleed

The parts of text or objects that extend past the page boundary to account for slight inaccuracy when trimming.

Color

The perceived hue, lightness, and saturation of an object or light.

Light source

The perceived location of the lighting in relation to the form.

Model releases

The permission that is required when a person's face is identifiable in a photo and the image will be used to promote something—whether it's a product or idea.

WORK FOR HIRE

The person who creates a work is considered the "author" and automatic owner of the copyright in that work. However, under the work made for hire doctrine, your employer that commissioned your work, not you, is considered the author and automatic copyright owner of your work.

Cast shadow

The shadow cast on any objects that are in the shadow of the form. Shadows fade as they get farther from the form casting the shadow.

Alleys

The space between columns is a gutter also known as

Leading

The space between text lines--at the same increment as the baseline grid

RHYTHM

The spaces between repeating elements.

Gutter

The spacing between columns.

Weight (line)

The thickness of a line.

What is meant by the team typeface conflict?

The typefaces used in a document are too similar to each other Tiff- high quality bitmap EPS- high quality printable vector graphics RTF- Text with some formatting TXT- text with no formatting

BALANCE

The uses of artistic elements (line, texture, color and form) in the creation of artworks in a way that renders visual stability.

In the structure pane.

The visual design of an InDesign layout is different from the XML content being imported. Where will the XML data be placed in InDesign when you import the data?

Font

The whole collection of the typeface in each of its sizes and styles.

Header rows

Top row or rows of a table.

Index entries

Topics listed in the index.

All caps

Using uppercase letterforms for each letter. All letters are the same size.

Alternate layout

Variation of an original layout you created in InDesign that is included in the same document as the original.

Use the text wrap panel to wrap the text around the detected edges of the giraffe image with a Top Offset of 0p6 and wrapped around the right side. Complete the wrap by creating a Clipping path of the detected images.

View- Text Wrap

Movement

Visual movement within a design such as the natural tracking of the eye across a page as the eye moves from focal point to focal point.

OBJECT STYLES

WINDOW --> STYLES --> OBJECT STYLES

Creative Commons

Ways that artists can release their works for limited use and still choose the way the works are used and shared: Public Domain, Attribution, ShareAlike, NoDerivs, and NonCommercial.

Spot colors are converted to Process color equivalents.

What happens to the colors in a document when you apply Simulate Overprint to the document when exporting it to PDF?

InDesign prompts you to show the layer before you can paste the object.

What happens when you copy an object from a visible layer and paste it into a hidden layer?

Focal point

What the design is all about. The call to action or the primary message you are trying to get across.

To ensure that the colors of your color-managed documents appear the same in all color-managed Adobe applications that use the same color management settings.

Why should you set up color management in your copy of InDesign and in other color-managed applications?

Uppercase

Words typed in capital letters.

Iterative work

Work that is shared as it is completed, allowing the customer to chime in with comments while it is still easy to make changes.

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Works that exist in the public domain are free to use without copyright restrictions.

The paragraph-level override is removed from the entire paragraph, whereas the character-level override is removed only from the selected text.

You apply paragraph and character styles to text in an InDesign document. You select part of the first paragraph and clear all overrides. What happens to the paragraph?

EPS

You are creating a brochure that contains an illustrated logo. You want to print the brochure on an offset press. Which file format should you use for the logo?

Select the appropriate low-resolution image and relink to the high-resolution version.

You are creating a newsletter that contains a number of photographs. Your client has supplied low-resolution images to be used as placeholders. You want to replace the placeholders with high-resolution images. What should you do?

Map Tags to Styles

You are importing XML into an existing InDesign document. You want to format the text as efficiently as possible by using existing InDesign styles. Which feature should you use?

Select Remove Styles And Formatting From Text And Tables and Preserve Local Overrides in the import options.

You are placing a formatted Microsoft Word document into your InDesign document. You want to remove all formatting from the Word document except for the character attributes. What should you do?

Select Custom for Position and increase the Y Offset value.

You copy and paste a graphic into a text frame. You want to move the graphic downward. When you select and try to drag the graphic, it does not move. What should you do in the Anchored Object Options dialog box to move the graphic to the desired position?

The Mixed Ink Group parent is deleted and the related swatches are converted to process swatches of various mixtures of magenta and black inks.

You create a Mixed Ink Group by using Pantone Yellow spot color ink and process black ink. You specify the Initial, Repeat, and Increment values and create 66 mixed ink swatches. What happens if you edit the parent of the Mixed Ink Group by exchanging the Pantone Yellow ink for the process magenta ink?

The hyperlink destination attached to the button.

You create a button on a master page, add Rollover and Down states to the button, define the appearance of the button states, and add a hyperlink destination to the button. Which component will be missing when you export the InDesign document as a PDF document?

Convert the first row to header and use table styles.

You create a catalog that contains several tables and a table style to format the tables. The first row of the table is the heading. You want to format the tables and the text within these tables. What should you do?

Select the graphic and change the value of the Angle option in the Gradient panel and Select the graphic and use the Gradient Swatch tool to change the angle.

You create a gradient swatch by using the Gradient and Color panels. You do not specify an angle for the gradient. You apply the gradient as the fill color for a few graphics created in InDesign. Which two methods can you use to change the angle of the gradient on only a specific graphic?

All document pages that were assigned this master page are now assigned the None master page.

You create four master pages, A-Main, B-Sports, C-News, and D-Weather. B-Sports, C-News, and D-Weather are based on A-Main. Each master page is applied to various pages in a document. What happens when you use the Delete Master command to delete the B-Sports master page?

The modification is reflected on C-Master and D-Master.

You create four master pages: A-Master, B-Master, C-Master, and D-Master. B-Master is based on A-Master, C-Master is based on B-Master, and D-Master is a duplicate of C-Master. You modify a master page item on B-Master. What happens to the other master pages?

The default fill color of the Basic Graphic Frame object style is black. All new objects are assigned this object style.

You draw a square with a black fill by using the Rectangle tool. You want to change the fill color to blue for the square and for all new objects. You select the square and change the fill color to blue. You then draw a circle, but the fill color is still black. Why did this happen?

Cloning

You have a database that contains 25 records. Each record contains multiple data fields. You want to place the data as repeated data in your layout. Which option in the XML Import Options dialog box should you choose?

The text wraps around the selection and is visible over the remaining portion of the photograph.

You import a Photoshop image into your document and place it on a layer that is below a text frame that contains a story. The Photoshop image has a selection that has been saved as an alpha channel. You apply the Wrap Around Object Shape text wrap to it. What happens when you set the text wrap Contour Options to Alpha Channel?

Bevel and Emboss effect

You save an InDesign CS3 document in the InDesign Interchange format. Which style or effect is NOT retained when the document is viewed in InDesign CS2?

Select the signature and apply the Darken blend mode from the Effects panel.

You scan a white sheet of paper with a signature on it and save it as a JPEG file. You retouch the image in Photoshop so that you have a pure black signature on a pure white background. Then, you import the signature into InDesign and place it at the bottom of an existing photograph. How do you remove the white background so that only the signature appears on the photograph?

The paragraph style is applied to the text frame and Quick Apply closes.

You select a single frame story in your layout and open Quick Apply. What happens when you apply a paragraph style from the Quick Apply list?

Auto Flow

You use auto flow by using the key combinations in the following table while you click with the loaded text icon

The content is resized proportionately, but the frame remains of the same size.

You use the Position tool to select and resize the content of a graphic frame. You press the Shift key, select a frame handle, and drag inward. What happens to the frame and its content?

Print InDesign to PDF with Output as Separations selected.

You want to create a color-separated PDF document from a CMYK InDesign file. What should you do?

Select the CD Cover preset and choose Edit, then enter the correct page dimension.

You want to modify the page dimension settings for an existing document preset named CD Cover. You choose File > Document Presets > Define. What should you do?

The missing graphics are embedded in the QuarkXPress file.

You want to open a QuarkXPress file in InDesign. You have checked the file and ensured that all graphic links are current. When you open the QuarkXPress file in InDesign, a number of the images are missing. Why does this happen?

Save the file in .PDF format with bleed and place it using the import option, crop to Bleed.

You want to place an Illustrator file into your document. You want to import the artwork with its bleed area. What should you do?

You cannot rotate the graphic around its upper-left corner with the Free Transform tool.

You want to rotate a graphic around its upper-left corner by using the Free Transform tool. What should you do?

Select the text frame and choose a paragraph style from the Quick Apply list.

You want to use Quick Apply to change the paragraph style of a single frame story. You do NOT want to remove paragraph style overrides or character styles that are applied to the text within the frame. What should you do?

Use the Place command and choose the spreadsheet file.

You want to use data from an Excel spreadsheet in an InDesign table. You want the data in InDesign to be automatically updated every time the data in the spreadsheet is modified. What should you do?

Set the Row Height option to At Least.

You want to view the overset text in a cell of a table. What should you do?

The TIFF image is missing.

Your coworker has created a logo in InDesign. The logo consists of text formatted using a paragraph style, a vector shape created in InDesign, and a TIFF image. You ask your coworker to save the logo as a snippet and send it to you by e-mail. When you receive the email, the only file attached is the snippet file. What happens when you place the snippet into your layout?

Tab

Your cursor is in the last cell of a table. Which key should you use to insert a new row? A.Tab B.Shift C.Ctrl (Windows) or Apple (Mac OS) D.Down Arrow Your cursor is in the last cell of a table. Which key should you use to insert a new row?

Select the first row of the table and choose Table > Convert Rows > To Header.

Your document contains a table that flows across multiple pages. You want a heading to appear in every instance of this table. What should you do?

Choose Process from the Color Type menu.

Your new layout contains an Illustrator file that uses a spot color. You want to convert the spot color into its CMYK equivalent. You double click the spot color swatch to edit it in the Swatch Options dialog box. What should you do next?

gutter

empty space between columns

tracking

increasing spacing between letters

how to reflect image

object --> transform --> flip horizontal

What can be created using InDesign?

patterns

kerning

separates space between specific areas